Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popped its red head over the San Bernardino Mountains early one morning last week, the main strength of the U.S. Fleet stood out of San Pedro and San Diego harbors, went nodding up the California coast with torpedo-shaped, mine-cutting paravanes hung from every grey prow and all hands at battle stations. In the preceding preparatory weeks the West Coast had thrilled to the report that, although not a shot was to be fired, the Fleet had taken aboard almost its wartime ammunition load. Thus began Fleet Problem XVI, grandest Naval maneuver in U.S. history. whose scene and scope...
Cast in the role of smooth-shaven George Washington in a Philadelphia pageant, Pennsylvania's onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper shaved off his grey-bristle mustache, promised to let it grow out after the pageant...
...Whyte accepted a call from another large congregation-Old Stone Church on Public Square in Cleveland. To succeed Dr. Robert Wilson Mark who resigned in 1933, Old Stone's congregation agreed unanimously that Dr. Whyte is the man-one of the ablest of Presbyterian pulpiteers, suave, deep-voiced, grey-haired at 45. Toronto-born and educated, he delivered Canada's message to the first World Brotherhood Conference (32 nations) in London in 1919. Dr. Whyte is an expert on church law. appears as counsel before many a Presbyterian ecclesiastical court. Father of three, he accepted the Cleveland call...
...that the grey-bearded diplomats have momentarily ceased picking on Japan, Mr. Rea, Counsellor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Manchukuo, has come forward with a virulently partisan volume defending not only the establishment of the independent state, but also the entire policy of Japan in the Far East...
When on a fateful night in August, 1914 the Viscount Grey prophesied that the lamps of Europe were going out and that "we shall not see them lit again in our life time," his prophetic eye did not envisage London yesterday. It's streets tricked in colors of red, white, blue and gold; its buildings flooded with many colored lights; Westminster Abbey, described in one account as "a poem in old ivory," and Buckingham Palace a "stately miracle in white"--in such dress London toasted King George's silver jubilee so proudly as to make one feel there had never...